For Indonesian readers, Jennie raises the writing bar, regardless currently living as a Chinese Indonesian intellectual in diaspora. Her writings blend efforlessly with her sense of humanity and passion in scholarly works in today's globalized world. Instead of paralyzing her, Jennie who was triple oppressed in Indonesia, values it as a "site of struggle," as envisioned in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's In Other Words. (P. Mutiara Andalas SJ, PhD)
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